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What layer of crust averages 25 miles in thickness?
Continental crust.
This layer of the crust averages 25 miles in thickness?
continetal crust
Which layer of the crust has an average thickness of five miles?
The oceanic crust.
What is the thickness of the earths crust in miles?
The average is 9 miles.The average continental crust thickness is 22 miles thick. The maximum crust thickness is 56 miles underneath the Himalayas, and is 16 miles thick at its thinnest in various places.The average oceanic crust is about 4 miles thick.For the entire Earth then, the average crust thickness is 9 miles.To scale size, the earths crust would be about the thickness of 3 ordinary sheets of paper on a basketball. The thickness of a chicken eggshell would be 16 pieces of paper on a basketball, so the earths crust is 5 times thinner than a typical egg shell. And the crust is only as thick as the egg shell at its maximum thickness underneath Nepal.Sleep tight.
What is the thickness of the earth's crust?
The Earth's oceanic crust is very thin at the mid-ocean ridges, and gradually thickens as it moves away from the ridges. The continental crust is thickest under mountain ranges. The average depth of oceanic crust is around 5 miles. The average depth of continental crust is 22 miles.
Is the thickness of Earth's crust even around the planet?
falseThe Earth's crust is quite variable in density and thickness. Some places on the ocean floors it is many miles thinner than on land.
What is the thickness in miles of the earths crust?
Oceanic and continental combined is approximately 25 miles.
What is the thickness of the crust at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
the earths crust is 25 miles beneath the continents and 6.5 miles beneath the ocean
Which layer of the earth is 5 to 25 miles thick?
Continental crust can be 25 or more miles in thickness....
How thick is moons crust?
The moon's crust averages between 31 and 37 miles in thickness. The crust on the far side is a bit thicker than the near side.
Where would the thickness of the earth's crust be about 40 km?
The thickness of the Earh's crust about 40 km will be at the contenintal crust.
How thick is the crust in km?
The crust is about 30-50 kilometers, or 20-30 miles, thick. The thickness varies depending on the area of earth one is in.
